Time of Distress (14) - Rash Action

The Times of Distress will go to a new level when violent leaders in Israel take rash actions in an attempt to force things to happen.

Sons of the destroyers among your own people will rebel in fulfilment of the vision, but without success (Dan 11:14).

When the nations are distracted by a disturbance elsewhere in the Middle East, violent people will use force to push their agenda for the dominance of Israel. Their strategy will fail, because they are rushing ahead of God’s plan. Their failure will bring the wrath of the nations down on Israel.

This disaster will end with Israel being invaded. An army led by a powerful Western nation will invade the nation of Israel from bases in the Middle East.

The invader will do as he pleases; no one will be able to stand against him. He will establish himself in the Beautiful Land and will have the power to destroy it (Dan 11:16).

The expression "power to destroy" literally means "destruction in his hand". The invading army will have weapons of mass destruction. It will be so powerful that resistance is impossible.

And he shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions; and he shall perform them (Dan 11:17).

This powerful Western nation will take control of Israel an attempt to impose a solution for the last outstanding problem in the Middle East. The President will use military power to force Israel into a more equitable solution to the Palestinian problem. Israel might be forced to accept an independent Palestinian state. Ironically, Israel will find the security it seeks while trampled by a powerful nation.